Wow! It really feels like fall! We have had a great week in school! Look at all we have done.
Language Arts: Our letter of the week was P Many of our themes centered around this letter. Our sight words were"to" and "do." We practiced the sounds qu, ou, oi, ue, and er. We read Bennie's Pennies and had lots of fun retelling it by acting it out. We made a small book of Bennie's Pennies to keep in our book bags for guided reading time. Another small book we made was My Pig. we are practicing tracking our reading by pointing to the words as we read. We also notice repetitive text, matching words to the pictures, and that our popcorn words keep "popping" up. We read The Big Pumpkin and stopped halfway to make a prediction. We had creative ideas! We read the fact book Hold the Anchovies which told us how pizza is made. We wrote a response book about our favorite pizza. On Friday, our fifth grade reading buddies visited. We read lots of fall and Halloween books. What a fun time!
Math: Sequencing was our focus this week. We talked about what came 1st, 2nd , ect. in the story Bennie's Pennies. We read Pumpkin, Pumpkin and created a sequence page of how to create a Jack-o-Lantern. We also graphed our favorite kind of pizza. Can you guess which won? CHEESE!
Science: We conducted an experiment with pennies. We observed pennies then predicted what would happen when the pennies drop into a mystery liquid. Ask your child what happened.
Social Studies: Our Cool Tool last week and this week have been STOP, WALK, and TALK...our bully prevention program. We also had a class meeting about how we should be acting at school including school rules and being a good friend. Many members of our class are having a difficult time making good choices in regards to school behavior and friend interaction. We are going to be making time every day to discuss how we should be treating others and ourselves. Beginning November, you will see a calendar going home to give you feedback on how your child's day went. I will send a note home explaining in better detail how this will work. I hope you find it helpful.
Notes: Kindergartners do not receive report cards the first quarter. You will get LOTS of information at our parent teacher conferences. Please look to you right to see the time of the Halloween parade and refer to the email that was sent last week about Monday.
Thank you to Eden's Grammy for being a guest reader. We look forward to our future visitors!
Have a great weekend!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Oct. 17-21
We had another busy week in kindergarten! I have added a few links to my blog site. Please look to the left to find a link to our new author study, Leo Lionni. We enjoyed watching the video clip of the author himself explaining his artwork, characters, and messages. Leo Lionni likes to have a lesson taught in each of his books. You will find a list on this link as well as many of them featured on my Library Thing. Also, please note that there are links to all the specials teachers' blogs. Try to visit Mrs. Dunafin's site. Our KP class is featured!
Language Arts: Our letter of the week was R. Our sight words were "am" and "and." We read Oh A-Hunting We Will Go and made a response book of our own with rhyming words. We made rhyme boxes and notices rhymes in our poems this week. We read Let's Make Rabbits by Leo Lionni and created pencil and scissor rabbits. Friday was Sound Book 6 review day. Our sounds were y, x, sh, and th. Other books we read were Red Racer, Tillie and the Wall, Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse, Frederick, and Matthew's Dream.
Math: We did many activities involving number quantity. We also made a rocket and counted down from 10-1. Tens frames help us organize the quantity of numbers up to ten. We played a tens frame game and Rabbit Flash math to produce number quantities to 10. Every Friday we work on a math extended response. The kids are learning about looking at the problem, showing their thinking in a picture, and writing a sentence with which includes labels.
Science: Thank you to everyone who remembered to send a rock to school. We had some who brought a few and were able to share. We studied our rocks with a magnifying glass and made a rock report. It was neat to see the different types of rocks and their characteristics!
Notes: Thank you to everyone who sent in wrapping/wall paper and other supplies on my wish list! I will not be sending out book order forms for October and November. Our May Watts LMC will have a Book Fair around conference time. A good portion of the proceeds will go towards resources for our school. I will be placing an order for December (and I would love to do it in time for them to return before winter break.) Please feel free to place an order any time for any month if you wish.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Language Arts: Our letter of the week was R. Our sight words were "am" and "and." We read Oh A-Hunting We Will Go and made a response book of our own with rhyming words. We made rhyme boxes and notices rhymes in our poems this week. We read Let's Make Rabbits by Leo Lionni and created pencil and scissor rabbits. Friday was Sound Book 6 review day. Our sounds were y, x, sh, and th. Other books we read were Red Racer, Tillie and the Wall, Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse, Frederick, and Matthew's Dream.
Math: We did many activities involving number quantity. We also made a rocket and counted down from 10-1. Tens frames help us organize the quantity of numbers up to ten. We played a tens frame game and Rabbit Flash math to produce number quantities to 10. Every Friday we work on a math extended response. The kids are learning about looking at the problem, showing their thinking in a picture, and writing a sentence with which includes labels.
Science: Thank you to everyone who remembered to send a rock to school. We had some who brought a few and were able to share. We studied our rocks with a magnifying glass and made a rock report. It was neat to see the different types of rocks and their characteristics!
Notes: Thank you to everyone who sent in wrapping/wall paper and other supplies on my wish list! I will not be sending out book order forms for October and November. Our May Watts LMC will have a Book Fair around conference time. A good portion of the proceeds will go towards resources for our school. I will be placing an order for December (and I would love to do it in time for them to return before winter break.) Please feel free to place an order any time for any month if you wish.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Friday, October 14, 2011
Oct. 11-14
My post today will be short and sweet like our week! For social studies, we focused on fire safety this week. We read stories and wrote about things firefighters do to help our community. On Friday, we had a fire drill and listened to firefighters talk about changing smoke detector batteries, finding a meeting spot in case of a fire, staying low in the house to avoid smoke and our favorite: STOP, DROP, AND ROLL!
Math was centered around number quantities, counting, and numerical order.
We continued seasons in science and made beautiful fall trees for our classroom.
Next week we will be exploring rocks. Please have your child bring in a rock in a ziplock baggie with his/her name on it. We will also be doing an activity that involves old wallpaper or wrapping paper. If you have any to donate, we sure could use some!
Thank you to everyone who responded to our room parent's email about Sign Up Genius. I hope you find it to be an easy way to get involved. Look for more opportunities in the future. I will also try to create a volunteer calendar on the blog for you to check when you signed up.
If you have not returned your conference time sheets (I guess I sent them out a bit early.) please let me know if you can make it.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Math was centered around number quantities, counting, and numerical order.
We continued seasons in science and made beautiful fall trees for our classroom.
Next week we will be exploring rocks. Please have your child bring in a rock in a ziplock baggie with his/her name on it. We will also be doing an activity that involves old wallpaper or wrapping paper. If you have any to donate, we sure could use some!
Thank you to everyone who responded to our room parent's email about Sign Up Genius. I hope you find it to be an easy way to get involved. Look for more opportunities in the future. I will also try to create a volunteer calendar on the blog for you to check when you signed up.
If you have not returned your conference time sheets (I guess I sent them out a bit early.) please let me know if you can make it.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Oct. 3 - 7
On Friday, we met our fifth grade reading buddies from Mrs. Bennick's class. They came to our room and we paired up to read picture books together. We will get together about once a month throughout the year!
Language Arts: Our letter of the week was "s" and the sight words were "I" and "like." Practice those popcorn words at home! Our jolly phonics sounds were ee or, z, w, and ng. We made a sound review book that we brought home to show you. We read books about spiders and seasons. We wrote a fact response about spiders. We made our own Itsy Bitsy Spider book and had fun singing "There's a Spider on the Floor" with our spider rings. We practiced Listen to Reading for Daily 5. In this center, we listen to a book on tape and write a rated response.
Math: We played listen and count games. We made a spider number book matching the correct amount of spiders to the number. We learned a fun game called Skyscrapers which is a counting, estimating and comparing game. We practiced the writing strokes needed to write numbers (lines, curves, strokes, diagonals.)
Social Studies: We continued working on our listening skills. It is important to be an active listener...not to just hear but to listen and think about what you heard. Some books and videos that reinforced this skills were Listen Buddy, Listen and Learn, and Active Listening.
Science: Our science was emerged with language arts focusing on seasons. We read The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree and reproduced what the tree looked like throughout the four seasons. We watched a video about seasons and collaborated with our Turn and Talk partners to draw pictures of things we see in the four seasons: specific animals, plants, activities, holidays.
Notes: REMEMBER: No School on Monday Oct, 10th. - Columbus Day. Wednesday, Oct. 12th is early dismissal. The students will be dismissed at 12:15. DO NOT SEND A LUNCH THAT DAY BUT SEND A SNACK!!!!
Enjoy the long weekend and beautiful weather!
Language Arts: Our letter of the week was "s" and the sight words were "I" and "like." Practice those popcorn words at home! Our jolly phonics sounds were ee or, z, w, and ng. We made a sound review book that we brought home to show you. We read books about spiders and seasons. We wrote a fact response about spiders. We made our own Itsy Bitsy Spider book and had fun singing "There's a Spider on the Floor" with our spider rings. We practiced Listen to Reading for Daily 5. In this center, we listen to a book on tape and write a rated response.
Math: We played listen and count games. We made a spider number book matching the correct amount of spiders to the number. We learned a fun game called Skyscrapers which is a counting, estimating and comparing game. We practiced the writing strokes needed to write numbers (lines, curves, strokes, diagonals.)
Social Studies: We continued working on our listening skills. It is important to be an active listener...not to just hear but to listen and think about what you heard. Some books and videos that reinforced this skills were Listen Buddy, Listen and Learn, and Active Listening.
Science: Our science was emerged with language arts focusing on seasons. We read The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree and reproduced what the tree looked like throughout the four seasons. We watched a video about seasons and collaborated with our Turn and Talk partners to draw pictures of things we see in the four seasons: specific animals, plants, activities, holidays.
Notes: REMEMBER: No School on Monday Oct, 10th. - Columbus Day. Wednesday, Oct. 12th is early dismissal. The students will be dismissed at 12:15. DO NOT SEND A LUNCH THAT DAY BUT SEND A SNACK!!!!
Enjoy the long weekend and beautiful weather!
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